Coalition partners are at loggerheads over a new plan to cut public funding for NGOs by billions of crowns.

Italian authorities have spent over 200,000 euros from EU sources on escorting rescue boat Aquarius to the Spanish port of Valencia after the Rome government refused to accept over 600 migrants on board in June,...

A resident of Haarlem, the Netherlands, is going to bring a lawsuit against the municipality because of the introduction of digital visitor parking. From 1 September, the municipality wants residents to register their...

The human rights organization the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) is alleging that the authorities in the country are denying food to failed asylum seekers in transit zones. The allegations come on top of fierce...

European Network of Councils of the Judiciary (ENCJ), which represents Europe’s judiciaries, put forward a proposal to suspend its Polish member, the Polish Council for the Judiciary (KRS), on the basis it lacks...

A petition has been launched to urge members of Italy's Parliament to oppose self-defense legislation they're currently debating.

Following police apathy in investigating the violent attack against an Ecuador national living in Lithuania, a peaceful protest was held in Vilnius.

A 64-year-old man from Sittard will face the court in The Hague on Friday for insulting Turkish president Recept Tayyip Erdogan. The public prosecutor in The Hague confirmed it. In 2016 the man sent multiple offensive...

Germany’s foreign minister will visit Auschwitz during his upcoming trip to Poland, as a reminder for the most horrible breakdown of civilization in his country. Ahead of his official visit, Heiko Maas told to Polish...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Czech Republic - August 2018